John Stirling (Lord Provost)
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John Stirling (1677–1736) was an early 18th-century Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1728 to 1730.
Life
As a merchant he traded with Virginia and the Caribbean so is presumed to have traded in tobacco and sugar but there is no mention of his owning any plantations there.History of Glasgow, J McUre (1830): McUre's List of Glasgow Merchants
He served as Baillie in 1716 and 1724Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of Portraits in the New Galleries of Art in Corporation Buildings
and was elected Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1728 being succeeded by Peter Murdoch of Rosehill in 1730.{{Cite web|url = https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=16556|title = Provosts of Glasgow|date = 5 May 2017|access-date = 28 September 2021|archive-date = 26 September 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210926031343/https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=16556|url-status = dead}}
He died in Glasgow in 1736.Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of Portraits in the New Galleries of Art in Corporation Buildings
Family
He married Isabella Hunter. Their children included William Stirling (b.1717),[https://books.google.com/books?id=CLVBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA422 The Baronetage of England], p. 422 founder of William Stirling & Sons calico printers. He was uncle to Walter Stirling founder of the Stirling Library in Glasgow. His daughter Janet Stirling married the Glasgow goldsmith Robert Luke.Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of Portraits in the New Galleries of Art in Corporation Buildings
Artistic recognition
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Category:18th-century Scottish merchants